Altar of Fangs

Avenging Wrath: 16 casts, first at 19 seconds, median gap 65 seconds. Execution Sentence: 16 casts, first at 19 seconds, median gap 65 seconds. Identical on all three counts.

That is what a single macro firing two abilities looks like from the outside, and it is worth stating because Avenging Wrath being off the global cooldown is the only reason it works -- the game's own tables give it a recovery category of 0 and a global cooldown of 0 milliseconds, while Execution Sentence sits on the normal category at 750 milliseconds. One press, both abilities, no lost cast.

The effect on Execution Sentence is the story. Three keys ago it was talented and pressed once in twenty-five minutes. It is now pressed exactly as often as Wings, which is as often as it can be. Wings uptime was 384 seconds of 958 in combat -- 40%, the same as the previous key and about the ceiling a 60-second cooldown with a 24-second window allows.

The combat potion is also being used now: four casts of Light's Potential at a median 337-second gap against a 300-second cooldown, so close to on cooldown for the whole key.

This is worth understanding rather than reading as a stall. The `damage` axis divides output by the median of the OTHER damage dealers in the key, deliberately, so that it measures the player rather than the key level or the class. The consequence is that it also measures the company.

Previous key: 182,046 against a median of roughly 149,000, giving 120% and an axis score of 86. This key: 229,277 against a median of roughly 286,000, giving 80% and an axis score of 61. The raw number went up by a quarter and the axis fell by 25 points, because the other two damage dealers were an Arcane Mage and a Demonology Warlock both pushing past 284,000.

Neither number is wrong and neither is the whole answer. Read the axis when comparing this player against the field; read the raw output and the cast counts when asking whether they improved. Across three keys the cast counts have moved in one direction only.

17 stops against 10 expected for the role, scoring 95 -- up from 8 against 10 in the previous key. Rebuke was pressed 15 times at a median 45-second gap, against a 15-second cooldown, which is not maximal but is a large improvement on the 98-second median of the key before.

The party as a whole is still leaking badly: 42 of 208 stoppable casts stopped, 20%. Blood Sacrifice was cast 48 times and interrupted zero times. Fetid Spit leaked 52 of 58. Those are group failures rather than this player's -- he beat his expected share by 70% -- but they are why 133 seconds of Envenom stayed on the party for 6.7 million damage, and why the healer's sheet looks the way it does.

Holy Power overcap: 26%, against 25% in the previous key and 13% before the build change. 318 of 1,205 generated Holy Power was thrown away. This is now the only unforced throughput loss on the sheet and it has survived two keys of being pointed at.

Personal defensives are being used: 8 Divine Protection and 3 Divine Shield, and the 8 Divine Protection presses produced 8 Shield of Vengeance absorbs. Word of Glory is still zero casts across three keys, which is the one self-heal on the bar that never comes off it.

Divine Arbiter continues to sit unspent -- 20 of 52 buffs ran their full 20-second duration, median hold 12.25 seconds, and 120 Divine Purpose procs produced only 52 Arbiters. That ratio has now been 61%, 44% and 43% across three keys. The set bonus states a new Arbiter cannot be granted while one is active, so the low conversion and the long holds are the same fact seen twice. What is still unresolved -- and was retracted on the previous key's record -- is whether any particular spender should be preferred while it is up.

Correction, 2026-09-06: an earlier version of this analysis said Shield of Vengeance was talented and never pressed, and told the player to start pressing it. There is no such button in 12.1. The talent is spell 1261562, flagged `Passive spell` and `Not In Spellbook`, and its own text reads "Divine Protection reduces damage taken by an additional 10% and casts Shield of Vengeance." Measured across three keys: 0 casts of Shield of Vengeance against 11 and 8 Divine Protection presses that produced exactly 11 and 8 Shield of Vengeance buffs. The grader has been fixed and these records re-graded; the line is gone from the measured half.